Shropshire Council's transport boss has claimed residents are 'waiting desperately' for the controversial £81 million Shrewsbury North West Relief Road to save them from traffic misery.
A transport boss has claimed residents are "waiting desperately" for the controversial £81 million Shrewsbury North West Relief Road to save them from traffic misery.Councillor Dean Carroll, Shropshire Council's portfolio holder for physical infrastructure, was defending the project as councillors criticised a £2.5m overspend on the road and said the authority faced"a day of reckoning" over the project.
"We've managed to overspend by £2.5 million on the North West Relief Road - the four miles of road that nobody wants. We've managed to underspend by £1.3 million on school 20mph zones and local transport plans. Councillor Carroll described Councillor Buckley's suggestion that the authority was prioritising the road project over the safety of children as"callous and untrue", and that more school streets should be brought in during the next financial year.
"In terms of 'are we prioritising the relief road over school streets', what an absolutely callous thing to say, which is completely and fundamentally untrue."
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